We empower well-being through integrative treatment, embracing Maori, traditional and alternative medicine, fostering a loving and supportive community
Hokitika Healers
How we work
The Hokitika Healers are a group of healers and supporters who came together in 2021.
We empower well-being through integrative treatment, embracing Maori, traditional and alternative medicine, fostering a loving and supportive community.
When you contact us, include as many details as possible to enable practitioners to offer individualised options. Clients will receive options offered by the healer (or healers) with relevant skills. Healers work independently with clients, and terms of contract are agreed prior to engagement. Where multiple healers are involved in supporting you, there may be some coordination of care. Hokitika Healers is inappropriate for urgent care.
Hokitika Healers acts as a referral service and does not take responsibility for the care and treatment provided by the individual healers.
All services are offered in exchange for donations/koha.
Providing you with a safe space to heal
Your healing will take place on the West Coast.
Your treatment modality depends on which healers are best suited to help you.
Donations/koha
Health support needs to be accessible. Exchange for services from our healers and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) are on a donation/koha basis.
Definition of “koha” \
(Te Aka Maori Dictionary)
1. (noun) gift, present, offering, donation, contribution—especially one maintaining social relationships and has connotations of reciprocity…
Location
Our healers are located in Hokitika, Kumara, and Greymouth.
Healers work from home, clinic, remotely or they may come to your home—it depends on how they choose to work with you.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is available at a location in Hokitika.
Our services
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
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Talking Therapy
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Māori Medicine
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Massage
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Cranio-sacral therapy
Meet our team
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Ema Weepu
Is a kaimahi at Ora Tika, Ronkoa Māori Runanka Ltd.
Ema has been working within the discipline of Ronkoa Māori “Traditional ‘Ancient Māori Therapies” since 1996.
Modalities include: Mahi Wheua, Mirimiri, Whitiwhiti Korero, Karakia, Wai Rakau, and Pani/Kohu/Hinu.
Te tatai whakapapa ō ēnei ākonka: nō rātau nka uri ō Miniapoto - Waikato i tukuna mai ēnei tīkanka
Ngaki Kino d. Circa 1970’s
Matekino Adams d. 1992
Kapi Adams d. 1984
Teawhina Riwaka d. 2009
Ema Weepu …
(Waitaha/Mamoe/nKaitahu)
Ema is passing on this mātauranka to others through wānanka as taught to her by Teawhina Riwaka
nKā ako: 2012-2019 (North Island).
nKā ako: 2019-2024 (South Island).
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Tracey Peircy
Tracy offers Reiki, Cranio-sacral Therapy, Yoga, Yoga Nidra and restorative yoga, therapeutic massage, and SomatoEmotional release.
2011 Reiki Master (Usui Shiki Ryoho)
2012 Practicing Certificate in CranioSacral Therapy (#1) (Upledger Institute NZ)
2013 Instructing Yoga Teacher (Ashram Yoga Retreat, Swami Shantimurti Sarswati)
2015 Practicing Certificate in CranioSacral Therapy (#2) (Upledger Institute NZ )
2019 Instructing Yoga Nidra and Restorative Yoga (Anahata Yoga Retreat Swami Karma Karuna)
2023 (7/7) CranioSacral2 24 hour Refresher Course
2023 Basic Therapeutic Massage.
2023 Practicing Cert SomatoEmotional Release Practicing
Combining YogaNidra, mental relaxation, physical massage and SomatoEmotional release alongside CranioSacral Practice, Tracey offers an opportunity for the body and spirit to be nurtured in a way that encourages healing on all levels of the being.
CranioSacral Therapy is a form of therapy that uses gentle touch to palpate the synarthrodial joints of the cranium. With evaluation of the osseous and membraLearn Morenous aspects of the CranioSacral System, gentle touch can allow the release of physical tensions and energy blockages. -
Steve Page
Working as an acute mental health nurse for over 30 years, I came to believe that the vast majority of mental health disorders, both chronic and acute, were the result of emotional trauma, both recent and in the more distant past.
This emotional trauma would manifest itself in many ways, either in the body, mind or spirit, and sometimes in all three simultaneously.
I realised that each aspect of ourselves was affected by the other and none of them could be treated in isolation from the others.
For example, there was no point in treating a person’s cognitive and behavioural dysfunction with counseling, psychotherapy or medications, if they ate a poor diet lacking in essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals.
Likewise, certain emotionally repressed traumas would manifest as ailments, dis-eases and other physical conditions. A common example is repressed anger manifesting as an inflammatory response somewhere within the body.
This branch of science is known as metaphysics and has become more widely accepted in recent years as more people have gained insight into the root cause(s) of their dis-ease.
My work with those experiencing unresolved trauma is rooted in the belief that we are comprised of mind, body and spirit. As such, I seek to empower those suffering with a range of tools for all aspects of the self, which can help restore balance and harmony to the ‘whole person’. -
Kate Hawkins
Kate is the owner and creator of Greenstone Retreat in Kumara which is fast becoming “THE” West Coast Holistic Healing Retreat. Greenstone Retreat is an enchanting wellness retreat on the edge of Kumara village with a range of therapies, healers and facilitators using the EVOLve studio and Healing hut.
Kate is a qualified personal trainer and sports therapist (Diploma with Premier Training UK in 2000) and yoga teacher. Kate has many years of yoga practice and study behind her and completed a 350 hour level 1 teacher training with My Health Yoga in 2019. In 2021 Kate completed her Yin Yoga Teacher training and 2023 finds Kate studying again with the Level 2 teacher training in progress. Kate has also completed her level 1 reiki and will continue with level 2 in 2024.
Kate offers individual and group yoga sessions including personalised home programmes and follows the 8 limbs of yoga from Patanjali's yoga sutras. Yoga asana (postures) used in a range of styles including hatha, yin, flow and restorative can help strengthen, stretch and relieve the body of aches and pains, improve flexibility, prevent injury and move stagnant energy. Sound healing, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork, ceremonial cacao, philosophy and relaxation techniques are used to help restore the balance and union of body, mind and spirit, reduce pain and discomfort, increase energy, support mental health and improve quality of life.
Each class/session is uniquely intuitive. Classes and individual sessions are suitable for beginners upto intermediate and held in a safe, supportive and beautiful new purpose built EVOLve yoga studio at Greenstone Retreat.
There is also a multi wave oscillator (a human battery cell recharger) available. These copper coils send broad spectrum frequencies to each other to reenergise cells to optimum to improve the bodies ability to heal and regenerate itself.
More information on the website www.greenstoneretreat.nz
Kate Hawkins
Greenstone Retreat
45 Greenstone Road,
Kumara, West Coast
New Zealand 7832
02108113396
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Vivienne Hill, BMid, RM
Home birth, holistic midwifery, intuitive bodywork and massage, lifestyle and dietary support, student of terrain concepts.
“Hokitika Healers is a wonderful support to people in need. Thank you for the introduction to Maori healing miracle workers, I will be forever grateful to you all. If anyone suffers from Morgellons or skin issues, these people are amazing as they have cured my illness. Best wishes.”
— Sharon Henderson, Hokitika Healers client